190€ R 265.1 BRIEF ADDRESS ON CLOSING THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE REGISTER. AFTER a delay much greater than was anticipated, the editor has at last the pleasure to At the 70th number we suspended nearly 500 papers for the want of attention to the With an honest pride, sustained by the favorable manner in which the WEEKLY REGIST We have only to add, (for it will give pleasure to the friends of the work) that if the RE- Athenian society of Balt. B 395 College of Medicine in Ma- 95 Colburn, Zera 423 Commerce of the U. S. or- Baltic. American trade to the 176 45 79 249 Comet, Hershell's account 78 111 176 110 67 East Florida, proceedings in 176 Committee of foreign relations 367 357 358 383 406 Volunteers privateers of it 120 election of mayor 160 - inspections 326 Bassano, duke of to lord Cas- tlereagh 36 Barney, com. his cruise 1581 Barlow, Mr. 272 335 Bane and antidote 220 Bayard, Mr. Barker, general 138 Barbadoes ib. Bellevue, attack upon 142 Belvidera frigate, see Presi dent and Belvidera. Bonaparte, Jerome and Eli- zabeth 224 Black Rock 249 Blockade of the Chesapeake 396 398 412 413) Bloomfield, general 40 190 Boston, mortality of 400 Bona privateer of Massachusetts 268 Blockade, privateer Bridge over the Schuylkill 322 British parliament 34 337 338 corruption of 144 goods imported 110 227 stocks 127 352 challenge 61 expenditures 64 80 license, copy of one 119 export 125 proclamation 138 prisoners in the U. S. 157 in the peninsula 124 Pennsylvania Maryland North-Carolina Vermont Kentucky Tennessee naval force at Halifax 157 Charter of Rhode-Island 174 335 Energy in war corps of Ermouth (Eug.) bank, fai- , cases of 325 479 37 28 2 tion 105-treaty 166-war 204 Internal navigation 126 205 17 299 142 249 368 9 opinion of the court 301 137 Junon frigate Erving's George W. letters ment 444 Evans, Oliver, his mill ma- 449 452 Fame, privateer 456 Fawn the, a cartel 461 Fifteenth regiment, the Kenawa salt works Kickapoo towns attacked 310 Kingston, attack upon 206 218 Addenda 127 L 143 Letters. mr. Monroe to mr. 133 464 Flint for guns, discovery of 240 469 Floridas, the 472 476 mr. Graham to the same 252 350 161 ib. mr. Monroe to the same 162 178 229 lord Castlereagh to mr. Rus- 16 19 49 52 107 10 171 178 his expedition to Id. Castlereagh to mr. Russel 164 ib. gen. Tupper to gen. Harri- son 167 88 Fort Gansevoort 282 126 Frontier distances 16 205 216 France, imperial family of Tennessee re- Crooks, gen. his march 396 320 112 63 80 Curran, Mr. D 269 285 Dacre's, captain 344 93 173 mr. Hamilton to mr. Russel 178 208 Smyth 255 mr. Dennison to the secreta- 191 336 159 ry of the navy ib. army 32 48 Funk, It. notice of his death gen. Smyth to the editors of 302 the Nat. Intelligencer 203 Geographical table Gaines, colonel E. P. 216 mr. Savage to the secretary 16 333 Georgia, members of con- 160 438 message of the go- 330 vernor 193 260 296 330 342 127 legislature his address to the 143 cretary of war 37-to the Caution, timely Caracas Cathcart, J. L, consul at Ma- 367 128 168 144 Castlereagh, lord, pensions to Champlain, naval force on Detroit the, and Caledonia Detroit, surrender of &c. 13 33 Gemmill, Mr. his resolu- -stores at 37 44 tions British official ac- Dearborn fort, fall of 259 sir J.B.Warren to mr Mitch- 245 343 com. Rodgers to the secre Gold coins, foreign 137 192 H 125 Hamilton, gen. to Mr. Pick- 123 Hawkins, col. respecting 349 gen.-general orders 233 119 to district attornies ib. Claiborne's gov. speech Clemency of gov. Edwards 278 Hamilton, lieut, his arrival 64 Hamilton, Paul resigns 18 Hanson, A. C. 64 tary of the navy 310 col. Winder to gen. Smyth 363 366 160 of Eastport 264 man Grahamn 366 secretary of war to the mili- 392 148 secretary of the treasury to col. Porter to gen, Dearborn 408 288 238 secretary of war to governor 90 Laws of the U. States 126 Harrison, fort defence of 328 244 Herberts tax tables Documents accompanying 369 Dox, capt. 8 69 143 Cobbett, extracts from his 412 79 66 290 270 233 205 Law of South Carolina on 328 Lewis, commodore 127 398 Hiram, the of Baltimore 425 416 Lear, consul 223 Live the constitution Sinuggling 335 Yankee privateer 30 196 315 390 61 398 Smyth, gen. at Buffalo Modern Antiquities Moon, capt. his statement Morcean, elegant Montgomery privateer Moss, Richard 345 Porter P. B. address stateinent of 63 South Carolina-gov.speech 50 Yankee trick 172-frolic, a 410 President of the U. S. rela- at New-York 301 song 107 45 Yeas & nays in the H. of R. 186 98 365 133 on the bill to suspend ib. 123 on Mr. McKim's motion 407 216 Ten. 118-of N. York 16 121 92 Sterling, Elijah an impress- the soldiers 287 on the militia bill 362 Evan's invention-see on the bill to compens Addenda. ate the officers & crew of the frigate Constitu- 362 St. Regis 171 Sun, moon and star, visible 128 119 Swartwout, col. R. thanks to 249 32 on the seamen's bill 392 221 Tamerlane, the 345 on increasing the navy 255 306 Taylor, captain Z. 79 90 160 on the bounty to the 25 224 zoo bill, &c ib. Quebec, government stores -council of appointment 352 Queenstown, battle at 125 Newhampshire-governor's 213 110 Tennessee-gov.speech 118 R 224 Zanesville No. 1 OF VOL. III.] BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1812. Hæc olim meminisse javabit.—VIRGIL. [WHOLE NO. 53. Printed and published by H. NILES, South-st. next door to the Merchant's Coffee fiouse, at $5 per annum, The Weekly Register. FOR THE WEEKLY REGISTER. Extract from an Oration, on Literature, Delivered in Tennessee. This number commences the third volume, or second year.of the WEEKLY REGISTER. Having in the last publication submitted a few remarks to our patrons, gards the probable character of the human species, An important enquiry, involved in this subject, rewe have nothing to add but to re-publish the original uninfluenced by literature. 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And, here we may venture to remark, of his own industry, never invited the ancient iili ethat not only the dispositions, but the very manners rate barbarian either to aggression or defence. He and aspect of the people of different countries can knew of no rights, for he knew not the principles of undergo material alterations, from the accessions of his own nature; and his incentives to war were his knowledge and refinement which literature is calcu- wants and his cupidity. Right was a term not found lated to impart. Perhaps it might be found, upon in the vocabulary of his language; power gave him experiment and investigation, that the dejected, vin-his title, by the possession of whatever could allure dctive and sanguinary countenance of the poor In- his rapacity. He knew httle, perhaps nothing, of dian of our western forests, may, in some measure, the laws of nature and revelation, and he was, conbe characterized by the condition of his mind. Is it sequently, incapable of discovering the abstract and easily to be doubted, that mental culture would open inmutable principles of justice. In fine, he was ig to han new sources of enjoyment, and, by impartingnorant; and, not being in possession of any record fervor and activity to a langud imagination, bright-of the knowledge and the fate of anterior genera en the gloomy expression which at present charac- tions, all attempts to ameliorate such a condition terizes his melancholy aspect? Can it be doubted, were fruitless-the pinions of his genius drooped in that mental culture would discover to him the true the vacuum of antiquity! springs of human action, and by imparting a stron- We have now bestowed some attention, upon the ger faith in his own knowledge of the motives which probable condition of our species, unrefined by litera. actuate enlightened minds, efface the indications of ture, and unaided by the knowledge it imparts: jet suspicion from his features, and clothe them with us endeavor to trace some of its progressive steps, the fascmations of open energy, and the magnam-and salutary influences upon individuals and nations. mous indications of settled and systematic bravery? It cannot be doubted, that the capacity of progressCan it be doubted, that the cultivation of his mind, ing in knowledge, distinguishes humanity from the would, by rendering him conscious of equality with inferior orders of creation; but, there can be little the courtly European and American votaries of lite- difficulty in also acknowledging, that untaught and rature, enlighten the savage expressions which breathe savage man is but one remove from the condition of the treacheries of a timid soul, and efface the charac-other animals in the universe. Abandoned to the teristics of an unhallowed propensity to revenge formation of his own destiny, and put upon the discoCan it be doubted, that an accession of mental ener-very of means to procure his own happiness, after his gy would, by unfolding the criminality of wantonly expulsion from Eden, he found himself in want of shedding the blood of a fellow being, animate his rug-every thing, and pressed upon by the difficulties and ged features with the mild serenity of benevolence, dangers of untried existence. Endowed with faculand inculcate a salutary lesson of humanity and com-ties of strong perception, and feeling the hostile acpassion for the defenceless ?-But, what influence tion of the elements around hin, experiment discloswould a knowledge of literature produce upon his ed the means of ameliorating his painful sensations, domestic enjoyments-and what innovations would it and he invested his body with attire. The importuoperate in his political institutions -It would teach nities of hunger and thirst made irresistible claims him to feel the felicities of a local attachment, and on him, and experience suggested the means of allehe would be no longer a vagabond. It would instruct viation. Finding himself the sport of elementary him in the useful art of procuring for himself, not commotion, that the rains deluged, that the thunders only the necessaries, but the luxuries of life, by mo- terrified, and that the very animals around him were derate exertion, and he would cease to be a robber. his enemies, he raised a shed to cover, and a rampart It would impart, to his mind and feelings, that just to defend him; and, it was not until after he had equipoise of strength and sensibility, which leads to subdued the miseries of his primitive condition, and correct perceptions of the true science of life. And, felt elation at the conquest, that he found leisure to can we imagine, that, possessing a knowledge of the contemplate himself. Finding, that nature had atgenuine policy of governments, his political institu- tached pleasurable sensations to the banishment of tions would exlubit such a compound?-of elemen-his painful and comfortless situation, and that he was tary principles, neither defined nor understood;—of susceptible of higher than negative enjoyments, his laws enfeebled by opposition, and nearly depending faculties were roused, and he sought in experiment a for existence upon individual consent? And, let us knowledge of the means of positive happiness. From even proceed to examine, and compare, with the pre- the stores of his memory, he drew the images of what sent generations of Europe, the savage character of had afforded him pleasure, and what had been proour own ancestors, and we cannot but be struck with ductive of pain; and, reasoning upon the future by the contrast. The faithful page of history might the past, he embraced the one and avoided the other. here be made to unrol one of the most sanguinary But, the knowledge of what experiment had impartpictures upon the records of time. We might see theed, would be of no importance to any but himself, country from which our forefathers emigrated, ravag-and those who would listen to the simple story of his ed in succession by military despots, who were suc-experience, for he had no authentie means of transcessively allured by hopes of plunder, to wade to its miting his knowledge to posterity: tradition, indeed, empire through the devastation and carnage of the might be the vehicle of its conveyance, to perhaps predecessors !—And we could be at no loss to disco-the third successive generation, but, what mutilaver, in the hordes of barb rians that were embodied tions would it be doomed to undergo, from ignorance for such conquest and robbery, the progenitors cfnd defective memory. Literature alone would firthe present enlightened inhabitants of Europe and wish the meurs of its authentic transmission, and preour own country. Indeed, it is not improbable, the serve, in any characters, a legible record'of the if the infancy of all nations could be passed in review nwledge and the fate of past generations! Bun, and the night of antiquity invaded by the genius of er having made the discover of his capacity for research, we could scarcely be persuaded to recog-positive erjoyment, and whilst progressing in the nize, in the civilization of the present generations, elicitous experience of new wants with the means the offspring o. such barbarous and sanguinary ages. of supplying diem, n.n forgot to calculate, with pre |